Growing up in the eighties, I remember all sorts of stuff being narrated by James Earl Jones. His deep baritone voice is still burned into my head even though I can’t remember a movie I’ve seen of his since “Field of Dreams”.
During my teenage/early 20’s years, after James Earl faded away, it seems like Morgan Friedman was the new narrator guy. I’m just going off the top of my head, but Shawshank Redemption, Seven, and March of the Penguins all relied very heavily of his voice.
Now it seems like Mike Rowe has been narrating like 5+ different series on different networks. He’s got Dirty Jobs & Deadliest Catch on discovery, I’ve heard him narrating different things on Animal Planet occasionally, and now I’ve seen him narrating some new ghost show on discovery or TLC too. Tonight, I noticed he’s narrating another “Ghost Recruit School” show on Sci-Fi while channel surfing.
So is Mike Rowe emerging as the new baritone narrator to carry the torch for the upcoming generation? Should he maybe be looking into breaking into movies or stick to TV for a while longer?
Except for Sci-Fi, all those other shows are owned by the same corporation, and Ghost Hunters is produced by the people who make all those Disovery/TLC realiaty shows. He’s bascially the go to narrator for one production company.
I hope this doesn’t hearken an end to Sam Elliott. I’m not through with him yet. Maybe they can coexist for awhile, then star together in some Louis L’Amore movie during which the baritone god torch will be passed.
As an aside, he was a guest on the Adam Carolla podcast a little while back, and he is actually a really smart guy as well… Mike Rowe that is… not Milton Freeman.
And Mike Rowe is just as freindly and funny in person as he seems to be on TV. A place I worked at was featured in part of a show segment in the first pilot episode of Dirty Jobs several years ago. We didn’t know what to expect, whether they were going to make us look like fools or what. Turned out really well.
The one with the fish plant. They followed the fish scraps/guts to our place where we turned it into salmon feed.
He seems like it. I always feel bad when he gets into some place and the person decides to try to be a jerk to him, because it makes THEM look tremendously bad, not Mike.
Yeah, definitely. I specifically remember the episode at the charcoal place as being one where the guys working there seemed to be going out of their way to be dicks to Mike and his crew. I have no idea why. They came across as being grade-A douchebags.
I’ve been trying to convince my wife’s grandfather that he should submit his business to Dirty Jobs. They carve gravestones & monuments. I know DJ has done stone carving before, but I don’t think they’ve done gravestones. Unfortunately, wife’s Pa thinks it would be bad for business for some reason. I think it’s really because he’s a grumpy stone cutting octogenarian who doesn’t want to have to babysit some yahoos around the machinery all day. Which is understandable.
